Sphingoderus is a genus of Palaearctic grasshoppers, in the tribe Sphingonotini, erected by Grigory Bey-Bienko in 1950.[1] The recorded distribution of species (probably incomplete) is: North Africa, Europe (Greece) through to central Asia.[2]

Sphingoderus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Oedipodinae
Tribe: Sphingonotini
Genus: Sphingoderus
Bey-Bienko, 1950
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Species

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The Orthoptera Species File[2] lists:

  1. Sphingoderus angustus Descamps, 1967
  2. Sphingoderus carinatus (Saussure, 1888) - type species (as Sphingonotus coerulans variety carinata Saussure)

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